Security Theme

Security addresses the various components of an information system that safeguard the data and associated infrastructure from unauthorized activity. Topics of interest in this theme include (but are not limited to):

  • access control
  • adaptive security and system management
  • analysis of network and security protocols
  • applications of cryptographic techniques
  • attacks against networks and machines
  • authentication and authorization of users, systems, and applications
  • botnets
  • critical infrastructure security
  • firewall technologies
  • forensics and diagnostics for security
  • intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention
  • malicious code analysis, anti-virus, anti-spyware
  • network infrastructure security
  • operating system security
  • public safety and emergency management
  • security architectures
  • security in heterogeneous and large-scale environments
  • techniques for developing secure systems
  • web security
  • wireless and pervasive/ubiquitous computing security

Technical Program Chair

  • Nen-Fu Huang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)

Technical Program Committee

  • Zhiqiang Lin (University of Texas at Dallas)
  • Seungwon Shin (The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST))
  • Jun Li (Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University)
  • Alec Yasinsac (University of South Alabama)
  • Yong Guan (Iowa State University)
  • Mathieu Couture (Communications Research Centre Canada)
  • Wei Lu (Keene State College)
  • Xinming Ou (Kansas State University)
  • Hung-Min Sun (National Tsing Hua University)
  • José M. Fernandez (Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal)
  • Guy-Vincent (Jourdan University of Ottawa)
  • Abhinav Srivastava (AT&T Labs -- Research)
  • Alfredo Cuzzocrea (ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria)
  • Leyla Bilge (Symantec Research Labs)
  • Mahesh Tripunitara (University of Waterloo)
  • Gabriele Oligeri
  • Michalis Polychronakis (Columbia University)
  • Jose Morales (Institute for Cyber Security, University of Texas at San Antonio)
  • Charles Morisset (Newcastle University)
  • Mark Dibben (University of Tasmania, Australia)
  • Luis Javier García Villalba (Complutense University of Madrid, UCM)
  • Ioana Boureanu (EPFL, Lausanne)
  • Alvaro Cardenas (Fujitsu Laboratories of America)
  • Kevin Butler (University of Oregon)
  • Hassan Takabi (University of North Texas)
  • Katerina Mitrokotsa (Chalmers University of Technology)
  • Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University)
  • Canaan Kao (TrendMicro Corp.)
  • Andreas Wespi (IBM Research – Zurich)
  • Fu-Hau Hsu, (National Central University)
  • Peter Gutmann (University of Auckland)
  • Hui-Tang Lin (National Cheng-Kung University)